Flow boiling and heat transfer enhancement in four parallel microchannels using a dielectric working fluid, HFE 7000, was investigated. Each channel was 1000 μm wide and 510 μm high. A unique channel surface enhancement technique via diffusion bonding a layer of conductive fine wire mesh onto the heating wall was developed. According to the obtained flow boiling curves for both the bare and mesh channels, the amount of wall superheat was significantly reduced for the mesh channel at all stream-wise locations. This indicated that the nucleate boiling in the mesh channel was enhanced due to the increase of nucleation sites the mesh introduced. Both the nucleate boiling dominated and convective evaporation dominated regimes were identified. In addition, the overall trend for the flow boiling heat transfer coefficient, with respect to vapor quality, was increasing until the vapor quality reached approximately 0.4. The critical heat flux (CHF) for the mesh channel was also significantly higher than that of the bare channel in the low vapor quality region. Due to the fact of how the mesh was incorporated into the channels, no pressure drop penalty was identified for the mesh channels. Potential applications for this kind of mesh channel include high heat-flux electronic cooling systems and various energy conversion systems.
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ASME/JSME 2007 Thermal Engineering Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the ASME 2007 InterPACK Conference
July 8–12, 2007
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Conference Sponsors:
- Heat Transfer Division
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0-7918-4274-6
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Flow Boiling Enhancement in Microchannels With Diffusion Bonded Wire Mesh
Hailei Wang,
Hailei Wang
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
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Richard Peterson
Richard Peterson
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
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Hailei Wang
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Richard Peterson
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Paper No:
HT2007-32119, pp. 97-106; 10 pages
Published Online:
August 24, 2009
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Wang, H, & Peterson, R. "Flow Boiling Enhancement in Microchannels With Diffusion Bonded Wire Mesh." Proceedings of the ASME/JSME 2007 Thermal Engineering Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the ASME 2007 InterPACK Conference. ASME/JSME 2007 Thermal Engineering Heat Transfer Summer Conference, Volume 1. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. July 8–12, 2007. pp. 97-106. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/HT2007-32119
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